Western Research

Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
https://braincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-Translational-Research-Grants-in-Brain-Cancer_RFA.pdf
Sponsor/Award: BRAIN CANADA - TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS - 2025 COMPETITION

Grant Amount: $1,000,000 OVER 3 YEARS
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Jun 16, 2025
Sponsor's: Jun 23, 2025

Subject Areas:
Description:

To enhance Canada?s capacity in brain cancer research, Brain Canada, in partnership with the Cancer Research Society (CRS) and Kindred Foundation, is launching a national program to fund translational research that advances effective translation and application of knowledge of brain cancer across the expanse of pre-clinical, clinical and health services delivery domains to improve patient outcomes.

The funding program is intended to provide opportunities for multi-disciplinary collaborations between basic researchers and clinicians to translate basic research to novel approaches for the study, diagnosis and/or treatment of pediatric and/or adult brain cancer.

Application Details:

Please note that this funding opportunity includes a Registration Form and a Full Application stage. Applicants must submit a Registration Form in order to be eligible to submit a Full Application. Following an administrative check and relevance review, applicants deemed eligible will be invited to submit a Full Application.

Registration Forms due May 8 and Full Applications due June 23 must be submitted using Brain Canada?s electronic grant management system ? SmartSimple (https://braincanada.smartsimple.ca/s_Login.jsp).

INDIRECT COSTS DO NOT APPLY

NOTE: All research-related grant applications, letters of intent, contracts and agreements requiring an institutional or organizational signature must submit related documents to the Office of Research Services for review and approval. Requests for institutional signature should be received a minimum of five to ten business days before the posted Sponsor deadline. Please see Western Research's website regarding the institutional signatory process for more details. Specific opportunities may have their own timelines and requirements for submissions. A ROLA Proposal submitted by the PI and bearing department and faculty approvals is required.
Western Contacts: Latinovich,Cessandra
Hancock,Jennifer Anne
Mora Stock,Cindy
Patel,Pinal
Raymond,Sandrena
McCandless,Kate Elizabeth

Sponsor Contacts:

PROGRAMS@BRAINCANADA.CA
2155 Guy Street
Suite 900
Montreal, Quebec, Canada